Mind and Place: A Study of Cultural Conflict in Jhumpa Lahiri’s Interpreter of Maladies

In the existing scenario of multicultural societies, immigration is an extensively discussed phenomenon. Many writers have dealt variously with immigration and it has arisen as a new genre of migration literature. Migration is often difficult for those who find themselves culturally uprooted from a particular community to a new culture and society. The importance of culture is considered as a constituent factor in framing the identity. Jhumpa Lahiri is one such diasporic writer whose works clearly reflect the trauma and loss suffered by immigrants who suffer a cultural loss. The present study analyses Lahiri's collection of short stories entitled Interpreter of Maladies to understand the cultural dilemma and cultural tragedies of the characters whose maladies are too much extent cultural maladies.